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Where does “nu” come from?

nu (Old Dutch) comes from Proto-Germanic nu, from Proto-Indo-European nū — now.

Ancestry of “nu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicnunow
2Proto-Indo-Europeannūnow

Words derived from “nu”

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